Posts published in “Bicycling”

“It’s a beautiful day in East Palo Alto,” declared the city’s Public Works Director, Kamal Fallaha, at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Clarke Avenue/Newell Road Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridge over Highway 101 on Thursday morning. “As an engineer you live for days like this.” After the group photos of smiling public officials…

Yesterday evening East Palo Alto officials announced that a groundbreaking ceremony for the city’s long-anticipated Highway 101 pedestrian/bicycle bridge will take place on November 30, kicking off the construction of the bridge which is expected to last two years. The 12-foot wide bridge will span the highway from Clarke Avenue…

San Jose city officials announced a plan to construct separated bike lanes on a slew of streets in and beyond the downtown by 2019, in a major transformation of the city’s bicycle infrastructure dubbed “Better Bikeways“. The plan was presented by San Jose Bike & Pedestrian Program Director Peter Bennett at…

Redwood City’s five-member Planning Commission had mostly praise for the city’s El Camino Real Corridor Plan, recommending unanimously on Tuesday November 7 that the City Council adopt it. All five commissioners spoke in support of the plan’s proposal to replace parallel car parking on El Camino Real with separated bike…

On Thursday November 9, the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County (C/CAG) Board of Directors is expected to distribute a meager $2.3 million in funds from the state’s Transportation Development Act (TDA) Article 3 program for walking and bicycling improvements. Five capital projects and four planning projects were chosen by…

Stanford University, the San Francisco Bay Area’s leading cycling community in terms of sheer numbers, has released its 2017 Bicycle Commuter Access Study. The study points to ways to boost the number of bike commuters to Stanford and Palo Alto even higher. “Stanford has renewed its commitment to a strong…

Stanford University is offering just over $1 million worth of four bicycle route projects in exchange for the approval of its 2018 General Use Permit, will would allow the school to expand by 2.3 million square feet over the next 20 years. But the project’s Environmental Impact Report (EIR) doesn’t…

A rather unambitious new bicycle plan was approved by the East Palo Alto City Council on Tuesday October 17, an update to a similar 2011 predecessor. The bike plan calls for completing the San Francisco Bay Trail through the city, a new pedestrian/bicycle bridge over Highway 101 at University Avenue, and…

On Tuesday October 3 the East Palo Alto City Council declined to consider an approved a staff-written update of the city’s 2011 Bicycle Transportation Plan that appeared on their agenda, as the meeting had already run past midnight. The council will review the plan on October 17. One of the plan’s key…

East Palo Alto’s 2017 Bicycle Transportation Plan, an update of a 2011 predecesor, still lacks the true vision needed mainstream walking and bicycling for the city’s residents. But EPA just might move the needle a little and get more people walking and on bikes, especially after the ped/bike bridge over Highway…